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Married. Peter Sellers, 44, multi-faceted British comedian; and Miranda Quarry, 23, stepdaughter of Lord Mancroft, former Tory minister and director of the Cunard Steam-Ship Co.; he for the third time (previous wives: Actresses Anne Hayes and Britt Ekland), she for the first; in a civil ceremony in London...
...accept a strike, but wanted political action during the strike directed outward- toward ending the war-rather than inward against the University. The moderates noisily applauded Dean May when he gave a brief announcement, and remained conspicuously seated when the rest of the crowd gave Panther leader Doug Miranda a standing ovation. In the end, however, they lost the crucial vote of the evening, as the meeting approved, 1770-900 a demand calling on the University to immediately end "defense research. ROTC counter insurgency research, and all other such programs": the passage of this resolution implied that political action during...
...together and protested Brewster's action as "an evasion of responsibility." Black members of the committee withdrew, claiming that they were being used "as buffers to neutralize a dangerous and immediate situation." Some 1,500 students attended a "teach-in" at which New Haven Panther Leader Doug Miranda urged them: "Take your power and use it to move the institution-that Panther and that Bulldog are going to move together...
...Viet Nam, it is going to lose its ass in Cambodia." He could hardly be taken literally when he also vowed: "If they find Bobby, Erica and the Panthers guilty, we're going to pick up that building [the courthouse] and send it to the moon." Even Panther Miranda declared that it was not a time "to kill pigs. When you walk around the campus tonight, walk hiply, walk quietly...
Friday night, yippie Abbie Hoffman and Doug Miranda of the Black Panthers spoke to several thousand students gathered in the Sylvan Theatre, an open-air bowl at the foot of the Washington Monument. Hoffman called the Monument "The world's largest hard...